Sound Off, Jan. 28, 2013

I keep on hearing how America should be more like other countries - those countries that would all be bowing to a Nazi regime had those different Americans not come to their salvation. Our goal should always be being the best of what this nation (once) represented. Individual freedom, RESPONSIBILITY and achievement.

Well you Republicans stick to your script. I can't believe some of the Sound Off posts I'm reading. I read about bashing President Obama, about the marijuana smokers at the convention, about people texting, about gay marriage, gay rights. You keep talking about the same old stories. Taxes! Whatever happened to the job creators? What happened to your idea for creating jobs? I'd like to read a little about that. Instead of mentioning these issues that are meaningless in this nation.

Have you not watched any news lately? The cover-ups are flying right and left. Hillary Clinton's testimony was a farce. Obama is a farce. Our whole reality is becoming a farce.

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The luring of youth to an anti-gun doctrine is rampant in virtually of our major institutions, whether it be "educative", government, media, religious, entertainment, and corporate. Yet, they all clearly promote the worst forms of gun-related violence when it suits their own agendas, thus sending a rather schizophrenic signal to our nation's youth.

Generally speaking, I do not believe that the NRA is promoting violence, at least not in the manner in which the above institutions promote it (though one can certainly argue that hunting animals is violent).

But the message that the above institutions send is: "do as we say, not as we do."

And people wonder why we have such a moral crisis on our hands. The hypocrisy is rampant at every level.

I shot BB guns in Cub Scouts, and bolt action .22 rifles in Boy Scouts. It was never a problem back then, and I grew up with an appreciation for firearms, knowing that they're not toys. So what's the alternative now for kids going outside to the range for an afternoon? Stay inside playing Call of Duty?

I'm not saying the NRA isn't out of touch, and they certainly don't speak for all gun owners, but what's the difference in what they're doing versus what the gun grabbers are doing in terms of exploiting kids? The NRA doesn't exploit tragedies to push their agenda, that's for sure.

Here's what's going to come from all these (school safety) hearings: 1) School Safety - Recommend police officers in every school... But this won't happen because it will literally bankrupt some communities that are already hanging on by a thread. I hate to be the one to say this, but hiding in a closet with a shooter in the school is like hiding under a desk during a nuclear bomb. 2) Mental Health - Recommend hiring more child psychiatrists and counselors... But this won't happen because it will literally bankrupt some communities that are already hanging on by a thread. Recommend requiring anyone with a violent thought to be reported. Might happen, because legislators don't care about privacy rights. 3) Gun Control - You know their mind is already made up about this, just like Biden's taskforce. The hearings are for pomp and circumstance. Recommend expanded assault weapon ban, magazine capacity restriction, and require background checks on all transfers. These are definites.

What did he do? If he stole some money then bad on the cops. If he just robbed an old lady or attacked a kid, I say he got off easy and the cops should have been even more harsh. Our weak judicial system won't do anything.